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Meh but like that’s not libel, it was speculation which was plausible based on the politics of the shooter’s family (my understanding is that he didn’t have the damning information we seem to have now.) The second part of that statement was also a fair characterization that republicans are assigning blame where they can.
Fair. I don't know the context of when he said what he did and what information would have been known.
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Ok, I watched a video by someone I trust. The timeline is that Kimmel made his comments after it became known that the shooter had leftwing ideology. That being said, ABC didn't cancel Kimmel until after the FCC chair made threatening comments. Also, Nextar needs government approval for a merger, which may also have motivated the canceling.
Emily Jashinsky breaks down ABC’s decision to pull Jimmy Kimmel’s show after his claim that Charlie Kirk’s assassin was aligned with MAGA. She stresses that Kimmel taped his remarks after investigators had already confirmed the suspect’s radical leftist ties, making his comments knowingly reckless. Emily outlines the pressure campaign from the FCC Chair, and public, while Nexstar—seeking government approval for a $6.2 billion merger—pulled Kimmel’s show from local airwaves. She notes accusations of government intimidation but also takes into account market forces and basic ethics. Emily notes a Megyn Kelly post pointing out that ABC fired Chris Harrison for saying maybe we should judge a Bachelor contestant’s attendance (years earlier) at an antebellum party by what was considered offensive at the time. Emily frames this all as a “rebalancing” of media power.